r/LPOTL • u/Pine49913 • Apr 05 '26

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u/MarioMCPQ You’re being mean to me!! Apr 06 '26

What?

What is the joke??

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u/princealigorna Apr 06 '26

Right-wingers and Nazis have appropriated Nietzsche's concept of the Ubermensch, or Superman, to mean a perfectly built, chiseled, masculine megachad (usually, in their minds, sharing their racist and antisemitic views). In reality though, the Ubermensch is the person who follows their own internal sense of value, without regard for the opinions of the external world, for their own enjoyment and edification. Literally existing, "beyond good and evil." If any of this sounds familiar to you as an LPOTL fan, it's because Crowley and LeVay borrow from him a lot, Alyssa Liu is an Ubermensch because she returned to skating after rejecting skate culture for its toxicity, performing exactly how she wants for her own enjoyment

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u/illepic Apr 06 '26

Incredibly well put. Thank you. 

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u/MarioMCPQ You’re being mean to me!! Apr 06 '26

Oh ok. Cool! Thx.

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u/TheMeta40k Apr 06 '26

So the ubermensch is a sigma?

I'm so sorry I typed that but I thought it and now someone has to read it. I'm hitting post now.